Quotes About Presence

But observers have generally noted that such people are greatly absorbed with their own thoughts even when in company. Winnicott's paradoxical description of 'being alone in the presence of others may be relevant not only to the infant with its mother, but also to those who are capable of intense concentration and preoccupation with their own inner processes even when surrounded by other people.

But how many ships do you reckon my presence to be worth?

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Seneca: 'You need not raise your hands to heaven; you need not beg the temple keeper for privileged access, as if a near approach to the cult image would give us a better hearing. The god is near you – with you – inside you.

You didn't see us," she said to Anna... "I was... lost in thought," Anna replied. "What were you thinking about?" "You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.

He tells you, more than anyone else, that a body is what a soul looks like, that the way you speak and move is all there is and nothing more need be said.

El determinismo circunscribe la necesidad a otra necesidad, de manera indefinida, sin encontrar jamás algo determinante en sentido propio; de ahí que todo su sistema de lo necesario resulte ser un sistema de lo innecesario, de aquello cuya efectiva presencia no proviene de sí ni de ningún otro, sino de un tercero, respecto del cual se reproduce el mismo dilema irresuelto.

Quién nos redime del Enemigo íntimo, de ese cuya presencia es la terrible esperanza?

The attraction of an exotic presence that was intensely carnal and at the same time as intangible as a promise was contained not in her attitude or words but in her very presence, the shape of her face, the color of her hair and eyes, the timbre of her voice, and something else not in her, the promise of so many unfulfilled and often unformed desires in him, roused by her proximity as if by a clap of hands or a voice revealing the dimension of a great area of darkness.

But he didn't have to invoke her, she was a constant, secret presence in his memory

He'd forgotten the sensation of novely, the thrill of desiring a woman so intensely it was pure magnetism of her female presence that made him tremble, more than her physical beauty or the slightly exotic elegance of her dress or the spontaneity with which she had leaned on his arm, holding it tighter when a speeding care passed close to them

Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

When you made me into another, I left you with me.

In full light we are not even a shadow.

A person who can't find the presence of invisible God inside own house has to only search or browse through outside places to spot HIM.

A person who can't trust the presence of God in the heart of his own has only to invoke his faith on Almighty by wearing products like amulet, bracelet, neck chain, ring stone and so on.

Negative or toxic people being unreal or material in nature try to find the presence of Almighty, ubiquitous God only in artificial or non-living things, not in natural or living beings.

There is always someone as Invisible Power peeping inside every person's mind as what he or she is seeking.

we cannot separate the roof from the heart from the trees that were there, standing. & so it is, when I say "night," it is your name I am calling, when I say "field," your thousand, thousand names, your million names.

And that past is ever present, Ever present in my heart, Filling it with sweetest love-thoughts, As I tread the world's wide mart.

Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand." "Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.